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Table of Contents
- The wide wilderness
- One of the loneliest pieces of country
- Cultural identity in the early medieval fenland
- Brigands and bandits
- Ely and the central peat lands
- Rich hay and commons
- A specialized environment
Reviews & Quotes
"The book has much to recommend it as a convenient summary of much of the evidence and a detailed description of how land-use and water management worked in the fens"
Keith Wade
Medieval Archaeology
(16/10/2018)
"This important and thoroughly researched book makes a very good case for long-term continuity in the specialised management needed for the Fenland."
David Bird
British Archaeology
(05/12/2017)
"A comparatively slim book, but in any roll call of regional histories, also comparatively significant."
Paul Spoerry
Current Archaeology
(06/12/2017)
"…offers a fresh perspective on a relatively poorly defined period, usefully questioning established views, long taken for granted, and generating a new set of carefully argued hypotheses that should focus attention for a new generation of researchers."
Bob Silvester
Medieval Settlement Research Group
(16/11/2017)
"…full of provoking ideas."
Peter Herring
Landscape History
(05/12/2017)
"This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the East Anglian Fenland in the early medieval period… This is probably one of the most important books to appear in recent years on the East Anglian Fenland, but the arguments presented here may also hold relevance to an understanding of the cultural background of a much wider area."
Della Hooke
The Antiquaries Journal
(10/12/2018)
"Ultimately, Susan Oosthuizen is to be congratulated on producing a thought-provoking volume which should be considered essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the settlement and exploitation of the East Anglian landscape during the Anglo-Saxon period."
Richard Hoggett
Norfolk Archaeology
(18/09/2020)